Simon Josefsson wrote: > > The copy of gnulib.mk in Emacs says: > > > > # This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU > > # General Public License. As a special exception to the GNU General > > # Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program > > # that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under > > # the same distribution terms as the rest of that program. > > > > There's no information about which version of the GPL. > > m4/gl-comp.m4 seems to have the same issue. > ... > I don't recall why we used this particular license here though, anyone?
This wording dates back to this patch: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2004-08/msg00046.html>, committed by Paul on 2004-08-12. Probably this was the common wording found in many other files. IMO the vagueness about the GPL version does not really matter, because hardly anyone distributes such a generated Makefile.am separately from a package with a configure script. Bruno -- In memoriam Pavlos Bakoyannis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlos_Bakoyannis>
